To the Unrepentant:The prophet Isaiah said, “Come let us reason together. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” It is not the will of the Father that any should perish, but that all shall come to repentance and the salvation through Jesus Christ. Every opportunity will have been given to mankind before the end of this age. Indeed, every opportunity has been given the people of the earth and is still being given. But the end of the age is near. This generation shall see it. What can you hope for, when God has freely offered to you, through the blood of Christ, the blessed hope of salvation and deliverance but you have rejected His Son? You have declared yourself to be wiser than Almighty God. You will be humbled on the day when truth is made known to all men. What will you say when the wrath of God blazes before you and you have no defense? God has told men of a place where the unrepentant must go, though it is not His will that any should perish there, He has laid His own will down that men may have a free will to choose God for themselves. He does not want puppets or dumb beasts. He wants His creation to want Him. He has revealed the horrors of the fire to come to those who will listen to Him. Those who have heard the warning desperately long for you to see the dreadful flames up ahead. If I warned you of an avalanche coming your way and told you to run for your lives, you would be grateful. Yet when a Christian who has received revelation from God Almighty, has seen the horror coming to those who refuse Christ, and tries to warn you to flee, you scoff and disbelieve and hate us for trying to save you. It's crazy and it will be your own foolishness that will cause your destruction, not God! (Isa. 13:11) I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and lay low the haughtiness of the ruthless. [RSV]Terrible trials are coming upon the earth and even are already here. Even the many unbelieving scientists can see that the earth is groaning over its own imminent destruction. The Bible confirms that the elements will melt, as God pours out his wrath upon the earth. When it comes, it will rain upon the wicked and the righteous, the just and the unjust. We are all on this fallen planet together and we will suffer together, unless the Lord is gracious enough to remove those who are His. Satan is the prince of this earth and the cause of our pain. God will allow Satan and sinful man to have a season of power on earth. However, God will allow this tribulation upon the earth, in hopes of bringing people to the point of crying out for His help before He finally pours out His wrath upon this earth. Nevertheless, according to Revelation, the unrepentant will scoff at, blame and reject God, even as they suffer plagues, diseases, and every imaginable hardship. Many will curse God with their dying breath, rather than repent. They have been given over to depraved minds and there is no relief for them. Not in this life, nor in the eternal one. Their eternal lot will be to suffer eternal torment in a lake of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. I pray that no one who is reading this will find themselves among those wretched souls. (Eph. 4:18-19) They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. [NIV]How very sad! Hell wasn't created for mankind. It was created for the destruction and punishment of Satan and his demons, who rebelled against God in the very beginning. Satan, knowing his judgment comes from a just and holy God, hates God and hates the creatures God made. Satan has deceived the nations and every individual, hoping to hurt God, by forcing God to destroy them as well. It was Satan's only hope that God would have to lay down His eternal heart of justice, and then Satan could escape destruction. But Jesus dashed Lucifer's hopes to the ground when He, who was without any sin, submitted to an unjust death at the cross. He did this to redeem His poor creatures from sin and grant them eternal life. God is not destructive by nature. He is a creator. He loves the things He has created. He especially loves those creatures He made in His own image. He wants to save them from the wrath and fury that must come, because He is a just Being. The price for your soul was more costly than you can possibly imagine. You cannot save yourself, even if you were to let yourself be crucified. Because you were never sinless, so it would do you no good. You were born into the sin nature of Adam. Therefore, Jesus did it for you. He is the only one who could because he was the only one not born of the seed of man and therefore not born into the sin and nature of mankind. If you refuse His sacrifice for you, you are without any hope and for eternity, you will weep and gnash your teeth. I can't imagine why anyone would trust their own thinking and deny all of this is true. The Bible is the most reliable historical document of its age that exists on this planet. It is a highly credible resource. Just because an arrogant, biased and uninformed unbeliever claims otherwise, don't bet your soul that he is right. (Proverbs 3:5-6) Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. [RSV]God made a way of escape for His beloved creatures, by taking on the punishment, himself, through the person of Jesus Christ. Why is this so hard to believe? If you think about it, you will discover that you easily believe things that are far more preposterous. There is no need for any human creature to spend eternity in shame and suffering. God doesn't want that for you. But He has granted His creatures the freedom to choose for themselves, whether to accept the truth He proclaims, and forsake their rebellious ways. And make no mistake, the Word clearly warns us that no one who practices adultery, witchcraft, fornication, perversion, gluttony, greed, murder, gossip, slander, lying, and every sort of evil will enter His kingdom. (Ephesians 5:5) For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a man is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things, God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient. [NIV]I will agree there are many professing Christians who do these things and believe me, they will be held to an even greater responsibility and accountability. But you will face the judgment throne of God all on your own and there is no grading curve, based on the failures of others. Christ will be the standard by which all men are measured. So if you find yourself doomed on that final day, it will only be your own fault because you rejected His offer for reconciliation and peace with God Almighty, through the Savior, Jesus. But don't think it can come any way other than through Christ Jesus and don't think it doesn't require true repentance and a turning away from sin. God is holy, righteous, and no sin will be allowed in the eternal kingdom of glory. He wants us, but only of our own free will. If we choose to reject His provision through Christ, we will perish. With a heart laden with sorrow and grief, God will cast those who rebelliously denied His Son, into the pit. (Matt. 16:26-27) What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. [NIV]
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